Redshift Publicly Accessible

Query id: af173fde-95ea-4584-b904-bb3923ac4bda
Query name: Redshift Publicly Accessible
Platform: Terraform
Severity: High
Category: Insecure Configurations
CWE: 668
URL: Github

Description¶

AWS Redshift Clusters must not be publicly accessible. Check if 'publicly_accessible' field is true or undefined (default is true)
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "positive1" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
}

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "positive2" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
  publicly_accessible = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "negative1" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
  publicly_accessible = false
}